“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, self-determination

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Coco Chanel

“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”

“Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”

― Lady Gaga

tags: be-yourself, individuality, self-determination

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Charlotte Brontë

“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

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Dr. Seuss

“Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.”

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: self-determination, soul

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Joss Whedon

“Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.”

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”

“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”

― Leo Buscaglia

tags: be-yourself, inspirational, self-determination

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Virginia Woolf

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”

― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: carpe-diem, happiness, live-in-the-moment, self-determination

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Philip Pullman

“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”

― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

tags: be-yourself, change, life, self-determination

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Robert T. Kiyosaki

“It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!”

― Robert T. Kiyosaki

tags: inspiration, life, self-determination, self-image, wisdom

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Eleanor Roosevelt

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: personal-responsibility, self-determination

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Michel de Montaigne

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”

“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

― Benjamin Franklin

tags: enterprise, self-determination

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Howard Zinn

“I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”

― Howard Zinn

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